.kkrieger - The FPS Game in 96KB (Full Gameplay)

Why HN readers recommended it

HN points to it as the standard example of procedural content generation and extreme size optimization in games.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Daniel Hands

Topic

procedural generation

Format

demo

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

9

Recommendation years in dataset

2013–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Before you read the story, I suggest that you look at the result in awe: [VIDEO] That whole game is 96k. Meaning it's roughly 0.07% of the size of an empty Electron app.

• Wow, great work, this reminds me of a lot of demoscene stuff where, when faced with space limitations, programmers aggressively used procedural generation combined with prerendering and caching. The most iconic example I can think of is .kkrieger, the 96kb first person shooter that has …

• This is an amazing insight into how demos are written. Farbrausch stuff has always been inspirational to me. It's very interesting is the sort of extreme version of the idea that data model and code are inherently tied: Especially in functional programming circles it's a …